Armoured fist met armoured claw, the shockwave exploded from the collusion shaking the docks as both demon and hunter leaped away from each other. As Glenn landed, his armoured greaves exploded with sparks of golden lightning, his body vanishing in a boom of static as he appeared behind Thanatos.
The demonic spirit of death grinned as he vanished, avoiding the clawed fingers heading towards him as he appeared above the blonde. His own greave stomped on the blonde head, smashing it into the dock, cracking the concrete as he loomed over the blonde.
A cero formed between his horns as Glenn struggled to get free form the demons grasp. The other screamed for him, only to watch in utter horror as the cero fired, a huge pillar of pure blood red energy enveloping both the demon and their blonde teammate.
A second later the pillar vanished leaving everyone to stare as Thanatos stood, staring up at the sky, Blake was about to lunge forward to skewer this creature with her sword for hurting her Glenn. Yang was with her, only to be stopped by both Ruby and Sun, keeping both girls in place
"Let me go, he needs to die!" Yang roared, trying to get free fo0rm her sisters grasp. Ruby didn't say anything as someone crashing into Thanatos, sending the horned demon flying across the docks. Blake and Yang stared in shock as Glenn slowly rose to his feet, his T-shirt gone, reviling burn marks along his left side as well as half of one of his jean legs.
Panting heavily, the blonde hunched over as Thanatos climbed back to his feet as well. "Still have some fight in ya king?" he spoke, sparks racing across his greaves as Glenn glared at him. "I won't lose" Glenn snarled in return, clawing at his face as his mask reformed only for it to be pale white like a Grimm's instead of solid gold.
With a roar, both demons vanished, appearing in front of each other, Glenn's fist meeting Thanatos's kick as the armoured limbs sparks against each other. The demon Grimm pulled his leg back, his body twisting and throwing a vicious right punch towards Glenn.
Glenn reacted in time, his extended arm bending back, coming across his chest and stopping the punch dead. Before Thanatos could advance, Glenn's free hand grabbed the extended arms wrist, roughly pulling Thanatos forward as he twisted away from him.
Throwing the horned demon over his shoulder, Glenn released him, allowing him to crash into the ground as he raised his clawed hand up. Wisps' of ice energy gathered around his fingers as he clenched them into a fist while his own body started to fall after the demon.
"FROZEN RAGE!" Glenn roared as he thrown his fist forward and icy explosion erupt on impact as Thanatos cried out in pain, his armoured chest cracking as the ice magic enhanced punch broke through his armour.
Leaping away from Thanatos, Glenn tried to regain his breath, only for his eyes to widen as Thanatos appeared in front of him, his clawed hand gripping his face, destroying his mask before he was thrown off his face.
Slamming into the warehouse walls, Glenn groaned in pain before his eyes snapped out in agony. Pain exploded form his stomach as Thanatos stood in front of him, his claws grasping the hilt of his white Katana that was plunged into the blondes gut.
Yang screamed as she forcefully pushed past Ruby, leaping towards the demon as he started to drag its Katana out of her Glenn's stomach. Each of her shotgun shells exploded against the demon body as he was thrown away form Glenn, leaving him impaled against the warehouse with the white Katana still in his chest.
"Oh god, it's going to be okay Glenn, it'll be okay" Yang said, tears cascading down her cheek s as Glenn coughed up blood. She couldn't remove the blade without killing him, and she knew it, she would only stare as Glenn died before her, her mind racing to figure out what to do.
The others had already reached her, Sun and Ruby watching as Thanatos stood back up, watching them intently, not moving a muscle towards them. "What do we do?" Yang panicked as Blake stared at the sword in horror, she knew Glenn couldn't survive that, not after using as much of his aura as he had against that demon.
"Looks like that's all you had huh kingy" Thanatos mocked from his place away from the group. "Shut up you monster!" Weiss snarled at the demon. "oh, you have some spirit don't you, I can see why the king wanted you, too bad he'll die" Thanatos laughed as Weiss glared at him, her own tears falling as he spoke the truth of Glenn's current condition.
"Not...going to happen" Glenn growled out, raising his head as the other stared in disbelief at the fact he wasn't out could form the pain he was feeling. "Oh, and what will you do now, you're heavily wounded, dying of blood loss and organ failure" Thanatos questioned.
"I..can't die...I'm too...stupid remember" Glenn growled out as his armoured limb grasp the Katana in his gut. No own could move as Glenn slowly started to pull the blade out of his stomach, Thanatos watching in glee as he felt the king spike of demonic energy.
"Go on king, you know the words" he whispered, waiting as the energy spiked again. Slowly pale blue energy started to form around Glenn as he finally pulled the blade out of his gut, almost falling to his knees as he stumbled forward.
With a growl, Glenn flicked the blade outwards, twirling it between his fingers until his clawed hand found the hilt. Pointing it towards Thanatos, Glenn's mask started to form as he spoke. "Vanishing dragon demon scale!" he roared, his body vanishing in the light as the other turned away from the blinding light.
As it died down, they stood in awe at the seven foot tall white armoured knight before them, his hands grasping with looked like a large scythe like blade with the back end of the scythe sporting a vicious axe head.
An icy blue cap cascaded down from his armoured shoulder as the knights head slowly rose, reviling a pair of glowing ice blue eyes under the draconic helmet. Slowly, he started to walk forward lowering his scythe/axe to his side as Thanatos grinned viciously at the knight.
"That's my king" he whispered as the knight stopped a few meters away from the horned demon. "let's get on with this" the knight spoke as everyone felt the pressure of his presence increase, almost forcing them to their knees.
Thanatos only grinned as a cero fire from his horns, only to meet the knight palm as the blue jewel on the gauntlet glowed brightly. "DIVIDE!" a voice bellowed as the cero vanished, half of the energy seeping into the knights scythe blade as the rest vanished into the air.
"Wha-what's going on, I don't understand any of this" Weiss mumbled as she watched the armoured knight lunge forward, the axe blade sparking against the demons armoured claws as both clash in mid air.
"Glenn has a lot to explain when this is over" Blake mumbled, her expression one of relief as Glenn was hurt anymore, but only when the armour came off will she know for sure that he'll be okay. "We need to clear out before those two get more destructive" Sun spoke up as another crater formed when Thanatos crashed into the docks, followed by another cero blasting Glenn skyward.
"Hahaha, this is what I'm talking about!" Thanatos roared in laughter, shooting out of the crater towards the air born knight. Glenn readjusted himself in the air, the staff of his scythe/axe blocking the demon punch as both that to fall back towards the docks.
Snapping the spiked end of the staff into the demons face, Glenn kicked Thanatos away, landing on the ground as his armoured greaves dug up small trenches to stop him. Looking up, the blonde flicked his scythe blade upwards, sweeping the blade forward as Thanatos backed off, stopping himself form being cut in two by the blade.
"Let's see how you handle this!" Thanatos roared as the jewels on his gauntlets turned to red, flames exploding around his limbs as he lunged forward, his right fist shooting toward the armoured knight.
Glenn twirled his scythe, the blade catching the oncoming fist and redirecting it to his left, his eyes widening as a torrent of flames exploded, missing him by an inch. Turning back to Thanatos, Glenn snapped his right foot forward kicking the beast away from him before following, his cape unfolding into his wings as he picked up speed.
Reaching the demon, Glenn's left hand released his weapons staff, grabbing onto Thanatos's shoulder as the jewel on his gauntlet pulsed to life. If Thanatos had eyes, they would have widened in surprise as the draconic knight's armour bellowed a divide, his strength being split in two, the extra energy coursing through the knight.
With a grin, Glenn kicked away form Thanatos, bringing his blade back as he pushed the energy of the cero and Thanatos's energy into the ti of the axe blade. "Blizzard" Glenn started as he drew the blade back.
"Oh shit" Thanatos cursed as he watched the blade sweeping through the air. "blaze!" the blonde finished as a large wave of snow and ice exploded out of the axe head, sweeping over the demon as he crashed into the warehouse wall, destroying it in the process.
Glenn fell to his knees, his armour shattering, leaving him in his tattered uniform, his gauntlet returning to their normal shotgun form as he panted for a breath. Everyone rushed towards him as Glenn smiled lightly at them, only to fall forward, his world going black.
Yang was first to reach him, just catching him before his head hit the ground, her arms encircling his form to keep him from falling over. "He's knocked out, we need to get back to beacon" Weiss spoke before an eerie chuckle made them all freeze in place.
Slowly, Thanatos rose form the destroyed wall, his mask cracked and was missing a horn as he stood, staring at the group in amusement. "The kings got a long way to go in order to handle his powers again...oh well, I have time" Thanatos spoke as he glanced at his king.
"Give him this when he wakes up, he'll need it" Thanatos said as he pulled a large silver coloured jewel out of his tattered jeans. Tossing it to Ruby, the demon vanished in a boom of static, leaving the teen confused, and the only one that could give them answers was knocked out.
The first thing Glenn felt as he returned to the land of the living was a really comfy bed under him. He could only wonder where he was because he was pretty sure he was fighting...his thought stopped dead as he shot up, his eyes snapping open in panic.
Pain exploded across his chest as he was forced to lie down again, his muscles refusing to move as the pain completely wrecked his nerves. "I see your awake" a voice spoke as Glenn slowly turned his head to see Ozpin sitting in a chair beside him.
So he was in a hospital then, cool.
"What happened?" Glenn asked groggily, his voice horse as Ozpin handed him a glass of water. "That is what I would like to ask, Team RWBY came back with you in their arms, and this" he said, holding a jewel in his free hand that made Glenn choke on his water.
"So you do know of this jewel, Ruby informed me that the Grimm, Thanatos, you called it, told them to give you this...explain" he ordered calmly as Glenn stared at the silver jewel silently. "Thanatos, he's not a Grimm" Glenn spoke in a whisper as Ozpin narrowed his eyes at the boy.
"Really, from what Team Ruby and the monkey Faunus Sun explained it was a humanoid Grimm, some kind of abomination" Ozpin countered calmly. "Your right, he is an abomination...he's a part of me" Glenn replied as Ozpin stared at the young injured hunter silently.
"I see, I will leave you to your teammates for now Mr Skellington, they wish to have some answers as well" Ozpin spoke as Glenn went wide eyed. Turning his head slightly, Glenn was greeted with Yang enraged expression as Ozpin quietly slipped out of the room, leaving the four girls to get their answers.
"Abomination..." Yang growled as she advanced on Glenn, the blonde unable to do anything as the girl watched silently. "I..." he didn't get to speak as Yang's hand slapped h9im across the face, leaving a deep red imprint on his pale cheeks.
"Don't you ever say that again, you hear me, you're not an abomination, you are my boyfriend and I'll be damned if I let you start thinking like you some freak" she yelled as Glenn could only hold in cheek in disbelief.
It was Akeno and Lucy all over again.
"Now that we have that out of the way, you own us answers Glenn" Weiss stepped forward, her hands on her hips as she waited for the blonde to respond. "Ugh..." Glenn started unsure of what they were looking for.
"We want to know everything" Weiss explained as she noticed the expression he was giving her. "We are teammates, we don't keep secrets, that, thing, is something we don't know about but you do, so explained, everything, now" she stated simply as Glenn looked at the rest of his team.
Blake was giving Yang a side long glance at her words but was still demanding answers form Glenn, Ruby was worried but wanted to help, Yang was, well, she was going to get her answer and Weiss, she was glaring at him.
With a sigh Glenn started to speak.
"I'm...not human...I'm a devil..." she spoke as he started his story, telling the girl of his best friend Sean, their adventures with his master Rias, each fight with either an angel, and fallen angel, some strange monster or someone from the Khoas brigade.
As his story continued, everyone could see how he spoke about the girls he mentioned, Yang slowly wondering what she truly was to the blonde. The story about Thanatos being apart of his soul and the demon being a form he could take, and one he did when he died saving the one girl he loved the most, Akeno.
As he finished, the girls were dead silent to his tale, Yang clenching her fist tightly as she recalled everyone single girl Glenn had spoken about, his tone showing just how much he loved each and everyone one of them.
And she felt betrayed because of it.
Was she just another girl to him, just some new pretty face until he could go home to the girls he loves.
Her mind raced with each thought as tears started to cascade down her cheeks.
"Yang" his voice brought her attention to him. He was slowly standing up, reviling his scare littered chest to her, the large scare that was given to him when Fenrir's fang had ripped through his chest and impaled his heart.
"Yang...I know what you thinking, please don't cry because of me, I'm sorry I never told you sooner" Glenn admitted in a whisper as the other girls slowly left the room, giving the two blondes their space.
"What am I to you Glenn, do you even care for me" Yang asked, her voice quiet as she reviled the broken girl underneath her boisterous attitude. "Yang, I never meant to hurt you, yes I'm in love with the girls from my home world, and I was going to tell you, to let you make a choice" Glenn explained softly.
"What choice?" Yang asked as she glanced at the blonde demon. "I don't know how long I will stay here, it could be months it could be years, but I don't want to leave you, will you come back with me if I have to go" he asked as Yang stared at him in surprise.
"You-you would want me to come with you?" she asked slowly, unsure if what he was asking was possible. "Yes, after everything we have been through, everything we did to get this far, I don't want it to just end like that, I just want to make you happy" he said, offering her a shy smile as Yang glanced back at him.
"I-if I say yes, what about Ruby, I just can't leave her on her own" Yang asked as Glenn slowly drew her into a hug, her muscle burning form the movement, but he really didn't care. "She can come along with us, I'm a high class devil and will need a peerage eventually" Glenn said with a smile as Yang have him a small one in return.
It still hurt to know she wasn't his first love.
But just being with him was worth it, no one could make him in her heart, she was his now, and she wouldn't regret it.
"So...do you have a demonic amount of stamina?" she asked with a wider grin as Glenn let his head hit her shoulder. "Way to ruin the moment" he grumbled at her horrible pun. "oh come on, how about we give that little dragon of yours a work out" Yang continued.
"Please stop" Glenn pleaded. "Do I have to make a deal with the devil hmm?" she didn't even seem to notice as Glenn started limping away, leaving the girl to make bad puns at his expense.